That's a great idea! Leverage in their influence and connection to boost your profile.
I agree that trust needs time to build, but what you suggested will help speed up the process. A few suggestions I can think of that you can consider:
- Find the early fans (meet parent groups or church groups and start from there)
- Start small (run a small class of 5 of it's easy to manage, and slowly scale it as you get more buy in)
- Create more content on Social Media (with links back to Steemit of course), to "educate" the public on your mission and intention.
Good luck!